Pakistan (284/5) defeat West Indies (280) by 5 wickets in first ODI match to lead the 3-match series 1-0

[Deewana Mastana]

Pakistan's attack is lacklustre.

Having players like Faheem, Abdullah, Talat not sure what to make of it.

Why has Farhan not been included instead of Abdullah as he's not done much internationally off late.

Farhan deserved a crack in ODI's ahead of Abdullah Shafique at this stage.

 

[RidiculousMan]

Motie's hitting reminds me of that of Umar Gul in WT20 2012 v South Africa.

Stay back and wait for the ball into you before swinging it towards the leg side.

 

[RidiculousMan]

Beautiful stadium.

Pardon my ignorance, why isn’t Saud Shakeel playing? Or is he a Test player only now?

Test player. Always has been

 

[RidiculousMan]

You also need ability

The current pacers incl. Shaheen are not known for their mastery of reverse swing. They are not even 50% as good as Imran and the two Ws

Wasim Jr is the best one by far in the current setup.

Though I've heard that his action is being worked on.

 

[Rana]

That review

Back to the CT cluelessness

 

[imshally81]

Why Faheem.and Talat in the team ?

 

[IMMY69]

This Naseem Shah is a bit brainless and also an extremely poor athlete...

Why Rizwan reviewed it is beyond me

 

[Rana]

What kind of clown takes a review like that?

 

[IMMY69]

That review

Back to the CT cluelessness

They're all clueless mate.
Each and every single one of them

 

[heddie19]

Shaheen geting smacked, not good

 

[Rana]

Shamar Joseph

Young John Cena

 

[heddie19]

What a reverse swinging yorker by Shaheen.

 

[shaz619]

This is why the donkey refused to bowl the super-over….

 

[PakPremi]

Pakistanis losing it in last overs.

 

[IMMY69]

What a reverse swinging yorker by Shaheen.

Why did he have to try slow ball filth against a tail ender? Why not just stick to the Yorker in the first place?

 

[Zeshan547]

Getting tonked by Tailenders now , Our Rubbish fast bowlers have hit a new low. Such a low IQ dumb wits.

 

[PakPremi]

Good comeback by Shaheen.

 

[shaz619]

A donkey will tell the time correctly at least once a day right

 

[PakPremi]

Getting tonked by Tailenders now , Our Rubbish fast bowlers have hit a new low. Such a low IQ dumb wits.

These two are well known good hitters, and the tonking ball was slipped out of Shaheen hand., can happen to anyone.

 

[Zeshan547]

Why in the world we played the losers Faheem and Talat in ODI in 2025? Hesson in another fraud by the looks of it.

 

[Rana]

14 runs in 48th over

 

[IAJ]

24 extras, crazy stuff

 

[IMMY69]

Half tracker slower ball...
Brainless

 

[Rana]

Love seeing the clown behind the stumps lose his marbles

 

[PakPremi]

Love seeing the clown behind the stumps lose his marbles

Only he has not , captained and kept well.

 

[AZulfi]

Windies have got enough runs on the board

290+ might be beyond our mercurial batting

 

[Zeshan547]

Like always this pathetic fielding and bowling in death overs will cost us if we end up losing, plus those good for nothing so called all rounders. They should have played one specialist fast bowler and one specialist batsman in place of them. This motie is treating them like Prime Lara. Such is the level of these clown bowlers.

 

[shaz619]

Love seeing the clown behind the stumps lose his marbles

I am witnessing the reincarnation of Misbah’s cricketing life quiet literally with his tactics today

 

[shaz619]

Excellent from Motie!

 

[Rana]

Only he has not , captained and kept well.

He let West Indies score 280 on a 220 wicket?

 

[PakPremi]

Naseem has bowled rubbish .

 

[RidiculousMan]

Lightning didn't strike twice for Motie

 

[RidiculousMan]

Windies have got enough runs on the board

290+ might be beyond our mercurial batting

Faheem will be coming at no. 8. Pakistan should be confident

 

[shaz619]

Moteh has done the damage, nice cameo there!

 

[AZulfi]

Rizwan is better than Haris 'Tulla' for sure

 

[PakPremi]

He let West Indies score 280 on a 220 wicket?

No way its 220 wicket. There are no demons what so ever. Some of WI boundaries were fortunate at the end like hitting artifical glass or bowlers slipping few.

 

[cricfan432]

Pak gonna lose if saim gets out early

 

[Zeshan547]

Which team worth it's salt would let windies score 280 on any pitch in ODI. They might chase it but don't keep your hopes high.

 

[RidiculousMan]

A bit of reverse swing and yorkers helped Naseem at the end.

 

[Rana]

No way its 220 wicket. There are no demons what so ever. Some of WI boundaries were fortunate at the end like hitting artifical glass or bowlers slipping few.

Saim Ayub getting 3.8 degrees turn

You say no demons

 

[PakPremi]

Naseem has bowled rubbish .

Hemade up for it with the wickets at the end.

 

[Nasty Naz]

Looks like reversing swinging yorkers are back with the new rules in place. Absolutely much needed and finally gives some bowlers a chance for comeback at the death.

 

[AZulfi]

280 is the final score, looks competitive on this wicket. Pak will have to bat well to chase this down.

 

[RidiculousMan]

Which team worth it's salt would let windies score 280 on any pitch in ODI. They might chase it but don't keep your hopes high.

West Indies are only team since 2023 WC that score over 10 runs per over in the last 10 overs.

You're making it sound like rather than a 10th ranked team, West Indies is 50th ranked team Argentina

 

[Caved12]

It was the wrong call to bowl out Sufiyan for his full 10 overs. It seemed Rizwan was done with him after 8, but it looked like someone from the dressing room, probably the coach, wanted him to finish his quota.

 

[RidiculousMan]

Looks like reversing swinging yorkers are back with the new rules in place. Absolutely much needed and finally gives some bowlers a chance for comeback at the death.

Good point. Which might finally mean 300+ won't be the norm anymore

 

[Vikram1989]

Nice to reverse swing back. It may reduce 50 runs of opposition onslaught in the end.odi wc in sa and reverse swing will make 240 or 250 great again. Teams will have to stretch properly with their lower order batsman to handle reverse swing. Opposition may target upfront more to offset that issue against Teams with good backend bowling unit.

 

[PakPremi]

280 is the final score, looks competitive on this wicket. Pak will have to bat well to chase this down.

I was expecting West Indies to score 275 condidering goodish first power play and with hitters in their lower batting order. Be good watch to see Pakistan chase it but in uk its bed time for me.

 

[heddie19]

Why did he have to try slow ball filth against a tail ender? Why not just stick to the Yorker in the first place?

Impact of playing too many t20s maybe?

 

[gazza619]

If he still is seen as a hitter then no. 7 should be fine for him.

well today could be his opportunity.

 

[heddie19]

well today could be his opportunity.

Hussain talat is not a hitter by any means.

 

[Rana]

Best of luck chasing this without Saim lol

 

[cricfan432]

Now pak cant win, tuk tuk of babar will start and will leave too much for lower order

 

[badsha001]

Poor batter. tuk tuk mindset.

 

[heddie19]

Cheap dismissal Saim

 

[Omer2002]

We were never going to win.this and i actually think Pak wont qualify for world cup

 

[RizwanT20Champ]

Ayub is such a rocks and diamonds player...mostly rocks. We warned that the mess with Babar and Rizwan would affect him and it has. Unlike Agha he is actually a decent player so hope he can turn it around under Bobby and Kaptana

 

[cricfan432]

We were never going to win.this and i actually think Pak wont qualify for world cup

Need complete overhaul of team like t20, we are playing three passengers in abd, rizwan and babar

 

[RizwanT20Champ]

Cheap dismissal Saim

Apparently he is better than Babar according to some folks....

 

[cricfan432]

Apparently he is better than Babar according to some folks....

Lets see what ling does today

 

[RizwanT20Champ]

King at the crease now. Hoping for King and Kaptaana to get it home for us. These are tough conditions and players like Ayub cannot play here yet. Confident that one of King or Kaptaana will bring it home for us with a big 50 or even 100.

 

[RizwanT20Champ]

Lets see what ling does today

Put some respect in the name. He has 31 international 100s. 55 average in ODIs. He is an ATG in this format.

 

[RizwanT20Champ]

Need complete overhaul of team like t20, we are playing three passengers in abd, rizwan and babar

Rizwan won us an ODI series in Australia. Have you forgotten already? Or are you too busy fanboying Kholi and Gill?

 

[cricfan432]

I’m awake for hasan nawaz and agha

 

[cricfan432]

Rizwan won us an ODI series in Australia. Have you forgotten already? Or are you too busy fanboying Kholi and Gill?

That was bowlers and ayub. If not for ayub we would have got bundled out for100

 

[RizwanT20Champ]

That was bowlers and ayub. If not for ayub we would have got bundled out for100

Hehe sure brother whatever you say. Don't worry, Shaheen and Naseem already shut up their haters. Now Babar and Rizwan will do it too. Stick around till Bobby gets his 100.

 

[heddie19]

That was bowlers and ayub. If not for ayub we would have got bundled out for100

Who was using those bowlers? Agha?

 

[heddie19]

Abdullah looking nice touch.

 

[RizwanT20Champ]

Who was using those bowlers? Agha?

Agha was using mind control to make everyone bowl like Dale Steyn.

 

[heddie19]

Agha was using mind control to make everyone bowl like Dale Steyn.

Yeah and he plays T20is with the intent (neeyat) and SR of 215.

 

[heddie19]

Yeah and he plays T20is with the intent (neeyat) and SR of 215.

He is a good cricketer especially in ODIs and Tests, I have nothing against him but the way Babar haters are potraying him here as a messiah.

 

[RizwanT20Champ]

Yeah and he plays T20is with the intent (neeyat) and SR of 215.

@mominsaigol supports him a lot.

 

[Wasim Ghulam]

Ling Azam 11 Dot Balls to Jayden Seales and one lucky Boundary off Edge.. ATG my ass

 

[RizwanT20Champ]

Ling Azam 11 Dot Balls to Jayden Seales and one lucky Boundary off Edge.. ATG my ass

Put some respect in the name. Guy is a bonafide legend with 31 centuries. Shameful post.

 

[Rana]

We are really missing this Babar Azam in T20s

 

[cricfan432]

Put some respect in the name. Guy is a bonafide legend with 31 centuries. Shameful post.

He will lose us the match today with rizwan, you can bet on it.

 

[Wasim Ghulam]

Put some respect in the name. Guy is a bonafide legend with 31 centuries. Shameful post.

Guy is bonafide snowflake when it comes to handling situations

 

[RizwanT20Champ]

He will lose us the match today with rizwan, you can bet on it.

At least one of them will score big and we will win. It will be one more to King and Kaptaana and you will be eating your words. Go back to fanboying Gill or Kholi or whoever you support.

 

[RizwanT20Champ]

Guy is bonafide snowflake when it comes to handling situations

Did he make 31 centuries in your living room?

 

[heddie19]

6 6 6 on pull by Babar. "This guy is real class" - Darren Ganga